The past few days of warmth and sun has really kick-started spring on Park Downs. Has returned and is better than ever, partially as a response to the shee p-. That seems to be increasing at this site and for which the Violet a larval food plant.

My first hour or so out of the house was an opportunity for my 6 year old daughter to stretch her legs in a local playground a few hundred yards from our base in Lake City. Next up overhead the dark form of a turkey vulture gliding around, closely followed by several more and a black vulture in tow. In one of the trees at the playground another mo.

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An insight into a microscopic world, invisible to the unaided human eye. Wednesday, January 8, 2014. Psocids are also found on tree bark and are sometimes known as barklice. Psocids look superficially like very small aphids but instead of a piecing feeding stylet they have biting jaws, that are visible in this side view. Other distinctive features are the relatively large compound eyes positioned on either side of the head and the long antennae. Saturday, October 26, 2013.

Flora and fauna, the first loves of my life - and other snapshots of my world. How to go Veggie? Sunday, January 1, 2012. Speaking of fairies, the harsh weather can give the garden a battering so one of my projects for the coming months will be to make it prettier and more comfortable for my little helpers. The above picture and the one below, are examples I found by googling, of what I would like to do in my own garden.

You can subscribe to this blog. Friday, July 15, 2016. Thursday, April 14, 2016. Viburnum x burkwoodii, Adoxaceae. When I first saw this wonderful shrub growing in a garden near Cambridge this week I thought it was Viburnum x burkwoodii. Is a hybrid between V. Thursday, April 10, 2014.

Welcome to my garden, which I have been cultivating for a quarter of a century. At five intervals, from early spring in 2010 to late winter in 2011 Sarah Blunt, BBC Natural History Unit Senior Radio Producer, visited to record the highs and lows of a single gardening year for the Radio 4 series. Elegies from a Suburban Garden. Thursday, July 4, 2013. Catkins of the corkscrew hazel. And the hairy buds of.

A tale of moths and men. Moths and butterflies - the difference. WHAT MOTH IS THAT? Monday, 8 January 2018. The moth trap remains closed-down and I am slowly working through my records in an armchair by the fire. But moths are still about and the lights of our porch are a modest beacon for them. In a blog post which also marked the first moth of a new year, and decade, in 2011. Sunday, 24 December 2017. Hi one and all and a Merry Christmas.

Flowers, trees and nature related photo gallery. Raquo; Nature Photo Gallery. Thank you for your visiting of my site. Com is a nature related photo blog site especially for plant pictures. These pictures are all taken by myself around my living area and when I tripped. The following lists are photo lists that are posted on this site. I categorized them such as Plants, Mammals, Birds and Insects etc. So please search your interested pictures from the following categorized lists.

How wordpress sells your soul. We like to say that WordPress is both free and priceless at the same time. 8220; Free, maybe. Priceless, I think not.